Medical students are invited, each year, to submit a 1500-word essay for the competition. The topic for 2019 was:

“Is there a role for kidney cancer screening on the NHS?"

Word limit: 1500, excluding title, abstract (no more than 200 words) and references. The word count includes words used in figures & figure captions, tables, appendices, footers and in-text citations. It is important to read the Guidance Notes (see below) for full information on the format of the essay. Essays may not be accepted if they do not meet the required format.

Students must be undergraduates enrolled at a medical school in either England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland on the closing date. Entries from students attending a medical school in overseas countries will not be eligible. The author of the essay judged to be the most outstanding in each medical school will receive a prize certificate and will be entered into the national competition.

The prize for the winner of the national competition will be £750 with £500 for the runner-up. The national winner and runner-up will be presented with their certificates at the BAUS Annual Conference at the SEC Glasgow (24 - 26 June 2019) and BAUS will give guest registration for the day of the presentations (to be advised).

Please submit essays no later than 12 noon on Thursday 26 March 2020 by email to BAUS. You must include the name of the medical school you are currently attending in the covering email. All submitted essays will be acknowledged by email. If you do not receive an acknowledgment, please telephone the BAUS Office on +44 (0)20 7869 6950.

2019 Competition - National & Regional Winners

The 2019 Medical Student Assay Competition was entitled ...

“Is there a role for kidney cancer screening on the NHS?"

... and was organised by Mr Toby Page (Newcastle).

National Winner & Runner-up

Images below show winner & runner-up of the national essay competition: winner Kiran Saini (Oxford University School of Medicine) with Mr Simon Brewster, and runner-up Shashwat Singh (University of Edinburgh) with Mr Toby Page:

Kiran Saini
(Winner)

Shashwat Singh
(Runner-up)

Regional Winners

A full list of regional winners for 2019 is shown below (** denotes a national winner/runner-up):

Region

Name

Medical School

East Midlands

Joher Rashid
Olivia Azouaghe

Leicester
Nottingham

East of England

Gus Rottenberg
Juliet Coutts

Cambridge
Norwich

Irish Republic

Engracia Yap
Ahmad Kareem Aly
Johnny Thornton

Dublin (RCSI School)
Dublin (University College)
Limerick

London North

Thomas Fisher
Usama Ali
Tobi Rotimi

Barts & The London
Imperial College London
UCL

London South

Alexandros Sklavounos
Mark Thomas

KCL
St George's

North East

Kimberley McDonald

Newcastle

North West

Katie Cheung
Shannon Jordan
Ellen Waller

Lancaster
Liverpool
Manchester

Northern Ireland

Nicola Melarkey

Belfast

Scotland East

Joanne MartinShashwat Singh** (Runner-up)

AberdeenEdinburgh

Scotland West

No awards made for 2019

South Central

Kiran Saini** (Winner)
Charlotte Woodward

Oxford
Southampton

South East Coast

Nidhi Desai

Brighton & Sussex

South West

Lee Keng Siang
Rhianedd Preece

Bristol
Peninsula (Exeter/Plymouth)

Wales

Filzah Nadiah Dato Mohd Hamid
Bethan Carter

Cardiff
Swansea

West Midlands

Adam Sinker

Warwick

Yorkshire & Humber

Krishanth Ganesan

Sheffield

Charlotte Woodward
(Southampton)
with Mr Baskhar Somani

Thomas Fisher
(Barts & The Royal London)
with Mr Stuart Graham

Lee Keng Siang
(Bristol)
with Mr Hashim Hashim

2018 Competition - National & Regional Winners

The 2018 Medical Student Essay Competition was entitled ...

“How can UK urologists justify the expense of using the latest technology within a nationally funded health system?"

... and was organised by Mr Toby Page (Newcastle).

National Winners

Sacha Moore, University of Southampton Medical School and Mikolaj Kowal, University of Manchester School of Medicine (pictures to follow).

Regional Winners

A full list of regional winners for 2018 is shown below (** denotes a national winner):

Region

Name

Medical School

East Midlands

No awards made for 2018

East of England

Kevin Soon Hwee Teo
Caolan Andrew Stowe

Cambridge
Norwich

Irish Republic

No awards made for 2018

London North

Nikhil Mayor
Norbert Banhidy

Barts
Imperial College London

London South

Alexander Light

King's College London

North East

Ellen Louise Meredith

Newcastle

North West

Arunachalam Soma
Kursheed KhanMikolaj Kowal**

Lancaster
Liverpool
Manchester

Northern Ireland

Leila Rezvani

Belfast

Scotland East

Georgios Kounidas
Thineskrishna Anbarasan

Aberdeen
Dundee

Scotland West

Gladys Lou

Glasgow

South Central

Ebtehal Moussa
Nithesh RanasinhaSacha Moore**

Buckingham
Oxford
Southampton

South East Coast

Willie-Henri Quah

Brighton & Sussex

South West

Jasmesh Sandhu
Ahmed Chowdhury

Bristol
Peninsula (Exeter/Plymouth)

Wales

Megan Simpkins
Loukas Kouzaris

Cardiff
Swansea

West Midlands

No awards made for 2018

Yorkshire & Humber

Ella Heath

Sheffield

Ella Heath
(Sheffield)
with Ms Kate Linton

Caolan Stowe
(Norwich)
with Mr Stuart Irving

2017 Competition - National & Regional Winners

The 2017 Medical Student Essay Competition was entitled ...

“Urological technology - where will we be in 20 years?"

... and was organised by Mr Toby Page (Newcastle).

Images below show winners of the national essay competition, Mostafa Beshr (below left - Leicester University Medical School) and Rye Yern Yap (below right - University of Sheffield Medical School) with Mr Toby Page (below centre):

Rye Yern Yap

Rye is pictured receiving his
award from Ms Kate Linton

Rye Yap's essay is not yet available

Mostafa Beshr

Mostafa is pictured receiving hisaward from Mr Duncan Summerton

Mostafa Beshr's essay is not yet available

Regional Winners

A full list of regional winners for 2017 is shown below (** denotes a national winner):

Region

Name

Medical School

East Midlands

Mostafa Beshr **

Leicester

East of England

Xue Wang
Declan Murphy

Cambridge
Norwich

Irish Republic

Martin Safari Aketch

RCSI Dublin

London North

Pooja Shah
Darryl Ethan Bernstein

Imperial College London
University College London

London South

Ashleigh Ellen Draper

King's College London

North East

Mark Hanson

Newcastle

North West

Nicholas John Strouther
Yanish Seeram Poolovadoo

Liverpool
Manchester

Northern Ireland

Matthew Shaun O'Donnell

Belfast

Scotland East

Jamie Leask

Dundee

Scotland West

No awards made for 2017

North West

Nicholas John Strouther
Yanish Seeram Poolovadoo

Liverpool
Manchester

South East Coast

No awards made for 2017

South West

Waheed-Ul-Rahman Ahmed

Exeter

Wales

Thomas Chandy
Omar Sadiq

Cardiff
Swansea

West Midlands

Munir Abdukhder
Victoria Nicholas

Birmingham
Nottingham

Yorkshire & Humber

Rye Yern Yap **

Sheffield

Certificates have also been presented to some of the regional winners of the competition - see the image(s) below: